Taylor & Francis launches "Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War: Intelligence, Strategy and Diplomacy"

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, recently launched the new digital resource, "Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War: Intelligence, Strategy and Diplomacy." Sourced from The National Archives, U.K., this resource provides access to British government secret intelligence and foreign policy files from 1873 to 1953.

Gill Bennett, OBE, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, comments, "This unique collection means that the crucial intelligence dimension to history in the first half of the twentieth-century is no longer missing." The range of documents, from daily signals intelligence reports to government-directed policy and strategy, span four key twentieth-century conflicts. It provides an almost day-by-day, in-depth study of the history of the Second World War, its causes, course, and consequences, and the early Cold War, from a high-level government and secret intelligence perspective.

Significant files include the Hess files, containing transcriptions of conversations and interrogations with Rudolf Hess, the Appointed Deputy Fuhrer to Adolf Hitler, during his wartime captivity in Britain. Other highlights in the resource relate to Operation Overlord (the Battle of Normandy), Operation Husky (Allied invasion of Sicily) and the series HW 1, which contains German, Japanese, Italian and other nation’s signals that were intercepted, deciphered, and translated by the British Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park.

This series runs from late 1940 to 1945 and in many cases Winston Churchill's own handwritten annotations, questions and comments are in the files.

For free trial and pricing information, contact Liz Stringer, stringer@amigos.org or 800-843-8482, ext. 2802.